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Cyber Security means different things to different people: for individuals, it can simply mean privacy; for companies it can mean the protection of sensitive information from malicious attacks or the compliance with regulatory requirements; for governments, it can mean the protection of state secrets from hackers or terrorists or espionage
Ironically, the government is on both sides of the fence because on the one hand it needs to protect its own information and on the other, it needs to dig into other peoples information in the interest of national security or the furtherance of economic objectives.
But the nature of security is such that if anyone (including the government) can crack through your defenses, theres always the fear that the intrusion wont be the only one.
So in a very broad sense, cyber security refers to the security measures taken by individuals, firms and the government to ensure that data remains in the state intended and accessible to the people intended, including actions taken and policies adopted to protect the data itself as well as the devices, servers, buildings, etc. that house it.
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Ironically, the government is on both sides of the fence because on the one hand it needs to protect its own information and on the other, it needs to dig into other peoples information in the interest of national security or the furtherance of economic objectives.
But the nature of security is such that if anyone (including the government) can crack through your defenses, theres always the fear that the intrusion wont be the only one.
So in a very broad sense, cyber security refers to the security measures taken by individuals, firms and the government to ensure that data remains in the state intended and accessible to the people intended, including actions taken and policies adopted to protect the data itself as well as the devices, servers, buildings, etc. that house it.
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